18 Related Articles from 2019-05-17

Are Surfer Cafes and Green Markets What a Working-Class Beach Neighborhood Needs?. Sleepy Arverne is attracting entrepreneurs from its neighbor to the west, Rockaway Beach. As gentrification there continues, the community adjusts to the spotlight. >>

ASOS mocked for $40 cat bra that barely covers anything: 'Feline very very uncomfortable'. And for reasons we can't understand, the cat seems to be flipping the middle finger... >>

Big City: Where are the Statues of L.G.B.T.Q. Pioneers? Here Are 11 Worthy New Yorkers. Virtually nonexistent among the city’s monuments, L.G.B.T.Q. men and women have made outsize contributions to New York’s identity. It is long past time they were put on a pedestal. >>

Cystic Fibrosis Patients Turn to Experimental Phage Therapy. Microphage therapy has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but there is growing interest in the treatment for cystic fibrosis. >>

Promises Made: Colombia’s Peace Deal Promised a New Era. This Is What It Looks Like.. Rebels are rearming, violence is soaring in the countryside and a new government is wavering in its commitment. >>

Single mum's Nasa internship funded by strangers. A single mother almost missed out on a coveted Nasa internship until strangers stepped in to help. >>

Some San Franciscans now living on the bay as housing crunch sends them to boats, barges. San Francisco’s twin crises of housing and homelessness are reaching a tipping point, forcing some residents to move to makeshift boats and barges, forming floating tent cities, due to a lack of affordable shelter. >>

Sunday Routine: How the Members of the Band AJR Spend Their Sundays. From planning their next tour to going out for sushi, the Met brothers are, for the most part, inseparable. >>

The Ins and Outs of Knit Theory. For physicist Elisabetta Matsumoto, “knitting is coding,” and yarn is a programmable material. >>

Waste Not — if You Want to Help Secure the Future of the Planet. Companies are experimenting with new definitions of waste and new ways of disposing of it — or avoiding the creation of it altogether >>